Trying to get going
Out for a walk this morning up the hill thinking that most of the walkers encountered have dogs. People don`t seem to, in the main, to walk without needing to take doggie for a walk.
But this morning on the radio there was a little newspiece on the planning controversy in Boat of Garten. It seems the locals, frightened of the dying of the community, are supportive of Davall developers getting the go ahead for a housing scheme that would, apparently, increase the population of "Boat" by one third and on the way make more affordable housing. SNH, who I take it, advise “the Park” are agin it. A lady spokesman this morning suggested that more folk would mean an increase in dog walkers and therefore a greater threat to the capercaiilie.
This bird, along with squirrels, are the principal determinants for or agin development.
Kingussie`s Community Council, by contrast seem pretty well opposed to Davall`s east side developments. Interestingly, here, there is no great clamour for a reduction of walkers-plenty of them, it seems to me, having a dog. Lots of folk wouldn`t go for a walk if they didn`t have a dog. Businesses want more tourists. What can the tourists do? Well, there`s walking-with or without dog(s).
On the hill up from the funicular car park on to the excellent path up Cairngorm and there, about 100m above, in among the snow fences were 13 ptarmigan. A 5 hour stroll in behind Cairngorm
and across to the top of Coire Domhain and I only saw one more of these “camouflaged” birds prominent on the snow free slopes-November?!
Visibility was excellent. Muirburn,sparkling motors on the A9, Aviemore, and yes ,the two windfarms, Farr and Paul`s Hill, obvious but hardly detracting from the beautiful day. Would the Allt Duine set up be so bad? Certainly, there are plenty of folk stirred up about the loss of some of Scotland`s grandest sites.
Out for a walk this morning up the hill thinking that most of the walkers encountered have dogs. People don`t seem to, in the main, to walk without needing to take doggie for a walk.
But this morning on the radio there was a little newspiece on the planning controversy in Boat of Garten. It seems the locals, frightened of the dying of the community, are supportive of Davall developers getting the go ahead for a housing scheme that would, apparently, increase the population of "Boat" by one third and on the way make more affordable housing. SNH, who I take it, advise “the Park” are agin it. A lady spokesman this morning suggested that more folk would mean an increase in dog walkers and therefore a greater threat to the capercaiilie.
This bird, along with squirrels, are the principal determinants for or agin development.
Kingussie`s Community Council, by contrast seem pretty well opposed to Davall`s east side developments. Interestingly, here, there is no great clamour for a reduction of walkers-plenty of them, it seems to me, having a dog. Lots of folk wouldn`t go for a walk if they didn`t have a dog. Businesses want more tourists. What can the tourists do? Well, there`s walking-with or without dog(s).
On the hill up from the funicular car park on to the excellent path up Cairngorm and there, about 100m above, in among the snow fences were 13 ptarmigan. A 5 hour stroll in behind Cairngorm
and across to the top of Coire Domhain and I only saw one more of these “camouflaged” birds prominent on the snow free slopes-November?!
Visibility was excellent. Muirburn,sparkling motors on the A9, Aviemore, and yes ,the two windfarms, Farr and Paul`s Hill, obvious but hardly detracting from the beautiful day. Would the Allt Duine set up be so bad? Certainly, there are plenty of folk stirred up about the loss of some of Scotland`s grandest sites.
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